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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Silly Monkey Stories #128 - Stop eating your vegetables

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12/Dec/2010 – Florencia (7)

Unlike me, my kids do have very healthy eating habits. They are used to eating vegetables and they all enjoy having items that I would never touch, like salads or fruits. The benefits of having a mother that does care, I guess...

I remember how crazy Santi was about tomatoes when he was a toddler. He would always walk around snacking on them as if they were apples! He still loves to eat them, especially the cherry tomatoes, which rarely last more than a day at home. The other kids were the same. I could never understand them.

Florencia just loves salads, especially Caesar's. Well, actually, all of my kids do, but Florencia was the one having dinner with me and Gaby last Sunday night. We went to Kelsey's (which I understand is the Canadian version of an American franchise) for dinner, and Gaby asked for a chicken Caesar salad. I had a peppercorn burger myself, and Florencia chose the mini-cheeseburgers kid's meal.

Food was great, but the moment they brought Gaby's dish, Florencia immediately dropped hers and started to look at her mom with sad puppy eyes until she got the OK to have some salad. Problem was... she wasn't eating her own stuff! We needed to leave soon to pick up the other three, so I ended saying something to her that must have made many people turn their heads to us in disbelief: